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ID: 7012584
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012584
Record Type:
administrative
Lorsch (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 39 17 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.6547
decimal degrees
Long: 008 34 07 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.5686
decimal degrees
Note:
Was once center for powerful abbey that played crucial role in Carolingian Renaissance; famed scriptorium produced many influential manuscripts, including "Lorsch Gospels"; was granted to archbishops of Mainz in 1232.
Names:
Lorsch
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Germany
(nation) (
P
)
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Hesse
(state) (
P
)
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Lorsch
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was flourishing Carolingian center
town (
C
)
monastic center (
H
)
............
founded in 8th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Lorsch..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 530
.................
Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 530
..................
Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1820954
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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